Magic Town (1947)
The guy with the dynamite heart meets the girl with the firecracker eyes!
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
- Date of release
- 1947-10-07
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (36)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Director
- William A. Wellman
Casting
- James Stewart — Rip Smith
- Jane Wyman — Mary Peterman
- Kent Smith — Hoopendecker
- Ned Sparks — Ike
- Wallace Ford — Lou Dicketts
- Regis Toomey — Ed Weaver
- Ann Doran — Mrs. Weaver
- Donald Meek — Mr. Twiddle
- E.J. Ballantine — Moody
- Ann Shoemaker — Ma Peterman
- Mickey Kuhn — Hank Nickleby
- Howard Freeman — Nickleby
Interesting facts
Magic Town is a 1947 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. The picture is one of the first films about the then-new practice of public opinion polling. The film was inspired by the Middletown studies. It is also known as The Magic City.
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